The climate conference in Glasgow has come to an end without having produced a major breakthrough in climate protection. The politicians who negotiated for two weeks believe they have taken another step in the right direction. Climate activists, on the other hand, …
In Germany and other European countries, fossil fuel prices have been the focus of political discussion for several weeks. Most are moaning about the rise in prices. Some politicians even want to reverse or at least mitigate it. Markus Söder (CSU) and Dietmar Bartsch (Die Linke), …
There are answers given by politicians to journalists’ questions that are stereotypically repeated hundreds of times, and although each of the answers is completely meaningless, they are never followed up. So, it is with the debt brake for Germany and Europe and the question of whether it should not be revised after the Corona shock. …
Almost everyone now knows that the first German attempt to reform its pay-as-you-go pension system by a funded arm, the famous Riester pension, was a total flop. Nevertheless, even before the government was formed, some parties were again discussing the possibility of strengthening the funded part. …
